founders become ceo’s

Is scaling up requiring you to reinvent yourself as a leader?

Every successful entrepreneur has a moment where the leadership style that made them successful starts to falter. It’s time for the chronic highs and lows to give way to leadership that is more sustainable, scalable and predictable, with a steady hand and expansive mind.
I coached a startup founder who closed a successful Series B while his Board was on the verge of letting him go. I worked with a founder on scaling strategy, leadership and capital to a 12X exit in under 5 years.  I guided another entrepreneur whose team was demoralized from micromanagement and no empathy.  For all of them, we developed a leadership style better suited to a sustainable, high-growth organization that can’t run on adrenaline and genius alone.

We should talk if you…

Cannot pull yourself away from working in the business and have trouble discerning how to let go of lesser value tasks
Feel pressure to deliver and are navigating complex i Board dynamics
Want to scale a culture that reflects your beliefs

Are open to learning how to better lead yourself so that you can better lead others

Cannot pull yourself away from working in the business and have trouble discerning how to let go of lesser value tasks
Feel pressure to deliver and are navigating complex i Board dynamics
Want to scale a culture that reflects your beliefs

Are open to learning how to better lead yourself so that you can better lead others

Entrepreneurship – including capacity for stress, volatility, uncertainty, and ambiguity – is in one’s DNA. Leadership is an art and practice that is developed over time.
– Mikael Meir

My Approach

As an entrepreneur, I personally started and scaled a dozen businesses; as a coach and consultant, I’ve worked with many founders making the challenging transition to CEO of a growing organization.

Working together, we’ll:

Align your purpose and values with your strategy and your team’s execution

Establish the infrastructure for a scalable culture that reflects what’s important to you

Improve your ability to effectively delegate and empower your people

Operationalize agile implementation methodologies used by unicorns in Silicon Valley

Build your capacity for productive conflict and strategic decision-making

Are you ready to transcend what’s holding you back?

Are you ready to be the CEO the business you built needs now?